Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." St. Thomas Aquinas said: "The things we love tell us who we are!" With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry!
Below are two albums of pictures that I created:
1. Our grand daughter Adrianna.
2. Tears of Mary!

MARY, OUR MOTHER

Thursday, June 19, 2014

December 25, 1998 After the apparition, which began at 11.50am,
and lasted twelve minutes, Jakov wrote: Our Lady came joyful. She
greeted me, as always, with "Praised be Jesus!" She spoke to me about
the secrets and afterwards gave me this message:

"Dear
children! Today, on the birthday of my Son, my heart is filled with
immeasurable joy, love and peace. As your mother, I desire for each of
you to feel that same joy, peace and love in the heart. That is why do
not be afraid to open your heart and to completely surrender yourself to
Jesus, because only in this way can He enter into your heart and fill
it with love, peace and joy. I bless you with my motherly blessing."

Jakov
prayed with his family. He prepared himself for the apparition with
Confession and Holy Mass. After the apparition, he cried for a while.

Today
we hear from Jakov Colo. I have transcribed from a talk given in
Medjugorje earlier this year that was presented on April 7, 2014 as
"Fruit of Medjugorje, Episode 109". You can view this talk in our Fruit
of Medjugorje Archives.

I
desire to greet you all. I will try to share with you what I think is
the most important. I believe that you know that Our Lady has been
appearing here in Medjugorje for more than thirty years. In all these
years together with Our Lady, I call these years, years of great grace!
These are years of great gifts from God that God desired to give to each
one of us. And truly I desire to share with pilgrims who come to
Medjugorje that the gift that we received was not meant just for us
visionaries or just by our parish in Medjugorje. This is a gift and a
grace given for the whole world. Therefore I always say to the pilgrims,
first we should say when we come to Medjugorje, thanks. Thank God for
this grace, for this amazing grace that is given to us, and thank God
for allowing Our Lady to stay with us during this long period of time.

When
the apparitions started in Medjugorje, I was ten years old. I am the
youngest of the six of us, and my life before the apparitions was the
life of a normal kid, who spent his time with his friends, who was
always playing with his friends, and my faith was the simple faith of a
kid. What my parents taught me and what they tried to teach me. And what
they were saying to me all the time was to be good, to behave, to go to
Mass, to go to the church. They always wanted to show to me that Our
Lady exists. But never during the prayers that I would say with my
family, did I ask for the grace from God to be able to see Our Lady,
because I didn't even know that Our Lady could appear. I knew that God
exists, that Our Lady exists, but that they are in heaven. But
everything changed on the 25th of June, 1981. And I can say now that
that day was the most beautiful day of my life.

On
that day I was given the tremendous gift and grace to be able to see
Our Lady for the first time. I gladly remember that first meeting with
Our Lady. When we came up Apparition Hill and when we for the first time
knelt before her, and I saw Our Lady for the first time with my own
eyes, it is so hard to describe what I felt in that moment. Many things
cannot be pronounced. Many things are just felt within our heart. It was
the same at that moment. The most beautiful thing at that moment was
the joy and peace. And the joy, peace and love that I could see in the
eyes of Our Lady was something special, and now I can say that that
moment was when I started feeling Our Lady as my mother.

When
we met with Our Lady for the first time we were just praying with her,
we did not speak to her. But we remained after the apparition in prayer
and then we ourselves started asking ourselves different questions. And
the question we asked was what to do now! We have to continue, because,
as I said previously, we did not ask for this gift to come. We
understood straight away that it was a gift. But it was also a great
responsibility. So we asked ourselves what to do now. And I remember
that in the early days Our Lady said in one of the messages, "Dear
children, it is enough for you to open your hearts and I will do the
rest."
I got my answer in this message. From that message I understood that I
couldn't do a lot, but I could do one thing, I could say my "yes" to Our
Lady, my "yes" to Jesus. I could surrender my life completely into
their hands. That moment my new life started.

I
have to say I spent my whole childhood with Our Lady. A new great life
started for me. I will never be able to give thanks to God for all I
have been granted. Growing up and growing in my faith I did understand
that apart from that gift to be able to see Our Lady, that I received
even a greater gift, a greater grace. That grace was to get to know
Jesus Christ through Our Lady. That is the reason Our Lady has been
coming to Medjugorje all these years. She has been coming to bring us
all to Jesus. She has been coming to show us the way that leads to
Jesus. And Our Lady desires to guide us all on the way of prayer,
conversion, peace, fasting and Holy Mass.

(Visionary Jakov Colo - April, 2014)

May
we all say thank you to Our Lady with the same depth of feeling that
Jakov expresses. Truly Our Lady's presence in our lives changes
everything. It makes everything alive! She brings us to her Son and then
we have everything!

Let us pray:

Prayer to the Queen of Peace

Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, Queen of Peace!

You came to us to lead us to God.

Obtain for us the grace

not only to say:

"Be it done to me according to Your will!",

but to live it, as You did.

Into Your hands we put our hands,

so that You may lead us to Him

amidst these afflictions and woes.

Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Creed, 7 Our Fathers, 7 Hail Marys, 7 Glory Bes....

Veni Creator Spiritus - Come Holy Spirit

Come Holy Spirit, Creator, come

best gift of God above,

the living spring, the living fire,

sweet unction and true love.

Thou Who are called the Paraclete,

from Thy bright heavenly throne,

come, take possession of our souls,

and make them all Thine own.

Thou who are sevenfold in Thy grace,

finger of God's right hand,

His promise, teaching little ones

to speak and understand.

O guide our minds with Thy blest light,

with love our hearts inflame;

and with Thy strength, which never decays,

confirm our mortal frame.

Far from us drive our deadly foe,

true peace unto us bring,

and through all perils lead us safe

beneath Thy sacred wing.

Through Thee may we the Father know,

through Thee the eternal Son,

and Thee the Spirit of them both,

thrice-blessed Three in One.

All glory to the Father be,

with his co-equal Son:

the same to Thee, great Paraclete,

while endless ages run. Amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Your love.

- Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.

- And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray:
God, who taught the hearts of thy faithful by the light of the Holy
Spirit, grant that by the gift of the same Spirit we may be always truly
wise and ever rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

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Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry!Below is a slide show of pictures that I have collected: Tears of Mary!

Have a look!

Jeremiah 14:17; 15:18

"Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the Virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with an exceedingly grievous evil. / Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed?"

Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna

Where Peter is, there is the Church, where the Church is there is Eternal Life

About Me

I'm 80, formally married to Marianne for 52 years, [Marianne passed away to the Lord on August 9th, 2013 after suffering a stroke and two cardiac arrests.] We have 4 children (plus 2 in heaven-stillborn) and nine grandchildren plus 1 Step-grandchild. I'm a Korean War Vet, U.S. Navy; I was a Motorcycle News Courier for U.P.I., and WNEW Chanel 5 TV News, during 60's & 70's; a Lieutenant in the Wycoff Hospital Police in the 90's. I was ordained a Permanent Deacon for the Brooklyn Diocese on April 25, 1987 and served in four parishes before relocating to Florida in 2002. I'm still incardinated for Brooklyn Diocese. There was no parish in my town so we traveled to either Mt. Dora or Eustis for Mass. My oldest son and daughter, John and Anne, lived near us but the rest of the gang are up North in New York and Pennsylvania. We have now relocated to a northern state and my ministry is mostly on the Internet with some blogs and groups. I also assist the pastor at the local Catholic church. I owe my life and conversion/calling to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel de Garabandal, who has brought me to her Son Jesus. I am Their servant and slave! I only want to do the Will of God and glorify the Most Blessed Trinity with my life!

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;let me never be put to shame!In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,to which I may continually come;you have given the command to save me,for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.For you, O Lord, are my hope,my trust, O Lord, from my youth.Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;you are he who took me from my mother's womb.My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,but you are my strong refuge.My mouth is filled with your praise,and with your glory all the day.Do not cast me off in the time of old age;forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;those who watch for my life consult togetherand say, “God has forsaken him;pursue and seize him,for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;O my God, make haste to help me!May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;with scorn and disgrace may they be coveredwho seek my hurt.

But I will hope continuallyand will praise you yet more and more.My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,of your deeds of salvation all the day,for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,O God, do not forsake me,until I proclaim your might to another generation,your power to all those to come.Your righteousness, O God,reaches the high heavens.You who have done great things,O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamitieswill revive me again;from the depths of the earthyou will bring me up again.You will increase my greatnessand comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harpfor your faithfulness, O my God;I will sing praises to you with the lyre,O Holy One of Israel.My lips will shout for joy,when I sing praises to you;my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointedwho sought to do me hurt.

Welcome to my Marian Blog

As you can tell from my postings, I'm in love with Mother Mary, who has taken me under her mantle of protection, has taught and led me to Her Divine Son, Jesus; Who in turn has led me, in the Holy Spirit, to the Eternal Father! Two prayers that I say often tell who I am:Come O Holy Spirit; Come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your well-beloved Spouse.

O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee. My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.